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Get in touch with Miles, bro. He knows all about these.

Haven't read the whole thread, so I don't know if this was recommended yet or not, but The Elevator has a steak called The Rock Filet that I absolutely love. They bring you the filet on a wooden plank with a soapstone heated to 400 degrees, you basically cut up the filet, sear the bites to your liking, and eat it. They also have a couple delicious dipping sauces to try as well. Highly recommend it.

Good looking car, my man. GLWS.

Mine runs at 4.8ghz, and never gets warmer than 85 degrees. Wetter is better.

Yeah, apparently this isn't the first time that PP has been in the news for shady shit. I'm thinking these folks have an agenda, even if I can't understand it.

OK, but first you have to post your cell phone number out here on the internets. Do that, and I promise I will get you as many 160+ character texts as you could ever want. Oh, and I'm no Verizon fanboy, but sprint sucks like michigan football.

No. Freaking. Way.

Lulz.

Nice tower, Maro. Clean. Feel free to pull the plastic off the monitor, though.

Seconded. Check out my pics in the other pc thread. If done right, not only is it hella effective, but it looks fucking awesome.

Roflsaurus.

*Chuckle*

I had no problems with mine. If you can, get the maunal, as it will add quite a bit to your mpg.

Im excited for this.

Sick. Nice pick up, Derek.

Jesus dude. Thinking good thoughts for you, bro.

Derek, if you like the GTO, have you looked at a G8? Just askin.

QFT. This plaus a 64 bit OS and you should be golden.

My GTO was awesome. Not too fun in the snow, but a good set of winter tires will go a long ways towards rectifying that problem. Super duper comfortable. Wish I still had it. Also, the back seat really isn't that bad. Trunk space sucks, though. It's worth it to get the ls2 and manual tranny. Give me a shout if you want to hear more about it.

Football gives you a stiffy?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/a-brave-new-world-of-fossil-fuels-on-demand/article1871149/ http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01127/reynolds-fuel17_1127884cl-3.jpg Neil Reynolds A brave new world of fossil fuels on demand NEIL REYNOLDS | Columnist profile | E-mail From Monday's Globe and Mail (Includes Correction) Published Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 5:00AM EST Last updated Friday, Jan. 21, 2011 4:40PM ESTIn September, a privately held and highly secretive U.S. biotech company named Joule Unlimited received a patent for “a proprietary organism” – a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline. This breakthrough technology, the company says, will deliver renewable supplies of liquid fossil fuel almost anywhere on Earth, in essentially unlimited quantity and at an energy-cost equivalent of $30 (U.S.) a barrel of crude oil. It will deliver, the company says, “fossil fuels on demand.” Five years on We’re not talking “biofuels” – not, at any rate, in the usual sense of the word. The Joule technology requires no “feedstock,” no corn, no wood, no garbage, no algae. Aside from hungry, gene-altered micro-organisms, it requires only carbon dioxide and sunshine to manufacture crude. And water: whether fresh, brackish or salt. With these “inputs,” it mimics photosynthesis, the process by which green leaves use solar energy to convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds. Indeed, the company describes its manufacture of fossil fuels as “artificial photosynthesis.” Joule says it now has “a library” of fossil-fuel organisms at work in its Massachusetts labs, each engineered to produce a different fuel. It has “proven the process,” has produced ethanol (for example) at a rate equivalent to 10,000 U.S. gallons an acre a year. It anticipates that this yield could hit 25,000 gallons an acre a year when scaled for commercial production, equivalent to roughly 800 barrels of crude an acre a year. By way of comparison, Cornell University’s David Pimentel, an authority on ethanol, says that one acre of corn produces less than half as much energy, equivalent to only 328 barrels. If a few hundred barrels of crude sounds modest, recall that millions of acres of prime U.S. farmland are now used to make corn ethanol. Joule says its “solar converter” technology makes the manufacture of liquid fossil fuels 50 times as efficient as conventional biofuel production – and eliminates as much as 90 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions. “Requiring only sunlight and waste C0{-2},” it says, “[this] technology can produce virtually unlimited quantities of fossil fuels with zero dependence on raw materials, agricultural land, crops or fresh water. It ends the hazards of oil exploration and oil production. It takes us to the unthinkable: liquid hydrocarbons on demand.” The company name honours James Prescott Joule, the 19th-century British scientist. Founded only four years ago, it has begun pilot-project production in Leander, Tex. Using modular solar panels (imagine an array of conventional panels in a one-acre field), it says it will quickly ramp up production this year toward small-scale commercial production in 2012. Joule acknowledges its reluctance to fully explain its “solar converter.” CEO Bill Sims told Biofuels Digest, an online biofuels news service, that secrecy has been essential for competitive reasons. “Some time soon,” he said, “what we are doing will become clear.” Although astonishing in its assertions, Joule gains credibility from its co-founder: George Church, the Harvard Medical School geneticist who helped initiate the Human Genome Project in 1984. Joule began to generate buzz toward the end of 2010. When U.S. Senator John Kerry toured the company’s labs in October, he called the technology “a potential game-changer.” He noted, ironically, that the company’s science is so advanced that it can’t qualify for federal grants or subsidies: The government’s definition of biofuels requires the use of raw-material feedstock. In December, the World Technology Network named the company the world’s top corporate player in bio-energy research. Biofuels Digest named it one of the world’s “50 hottest” bio-energy enterprises, moving it ahead 10 places in the past year (from 32nd to 22nd). Selected from 1,000 eligible companies around the world, 37 of the “50 hottest” are American-based – another reason not to count out the U.S. just yet. Conventional fossil fuels are formed from solar energy, too – in a process that takes zillions of bugs and millions of years. Joule’s technology ostensibly produces the same products in less time. In other energy-producing roles, vast quantities of microbes are already hard at work underground, loosening hard-to-recover crude oil. It could be time for science to bring these bugs up into the light of day.

What exactly does your deal with Nike entitle you to?

nice.

Mods, if you have to move this, my bad. Just wanted to let our good friends down in Cincinnati know that FES is offering energy savings for the first 15k residents down there who sign up. For the record, I in no way represent FES, nor do I get anything off of this deal. However, this is the market I work in, and I'm just trying to make sure that my peoples get a shot to save some loot. Here is the press release regarding the offer. I myself am hoping that they offer something like this up here, because I would definitely sign up for it. Feel free to ask questions, I'll answer what I can. FirstEnergy Solutions Could Save Cincinnati Residents Nearly $10.5 Million on Electricity Costs Akron, Ohio – FirstEnergy Solutions, an Ohio-based company and a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE), is now offering Duke Energy’s residential electric customers in the Cincinnati area a fixed price of 5.99 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) on electric generation through December 2012. This is a 30 percent savings over Duke’s current average generation rate of 8.78 cents per kWh. Over the two-year term of the contract, a residential customer (using approximately 12,500 kWh a year) could save up to $695. “FirstEnergy Solutions’ offer is the lowest price on electric generation* for a twoyear term in Duke’s service area,” said Tony Banks, vice president of Product & Market Development for FirstEnergy Solutions. “However, it’s important for Cincinnati-area residents to act now since this price is limited to the first 15,000 customers who respond by February 28, 2011.” FirstEnergy Solutions currently serves over one million residential and small business customers throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania. Residents who choose FirstEnergy Solutions as their electric generation supplier will continue to receive one bill and the same level of service from their electric utility company. The utility will continue to deliver the electricity, maintain the poles and wires, and respond to power outages. 2 Residential customers interested in learning more about the FirstEnergy Solutions offer should contact the company at 1-866-430-4408 or online at http://www.fessave.com/savings. All that is needed is a recent electric bill. Discounts and savings for small commercial and industrial businesses are also available by visiting http://www.fes.com. FirstEnergy Solutions provides competitive electric generation supply and other energy-related products and services, and is a licensed supplier in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan and Illinois. FirstEnergy is a diversified energy company headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, as well as energy management and other energy-related services. Its seven electric utility operating companies comprise the nation’s fifth largest investor-owned electric system based on serving 4.5 million customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; and its generation subsidiaries control approximately 13,500 megawatts of capacity. *Lowest price on electric generation for a 2-year contract in this utility’s service area as of January 17, 2011. (011711)

Tebow did it for four years, Cam only really did it for one. Not saying he won't go first round, just that there are still going to be questions.